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ESPN Sources: Joe Paterno to retire at season's end
Alex FergusonNov 9, 2011
Wow.
The media have got their man. Joe Paterno's going to retire from Penn State Football at season's end, sources have told ESPNย and prior to that, the Associated Press.
Frankly, he should have retired this year regardless -ย it was fairly obvious that his reign was coming to an end and Penn State needed a new coach.
But don't get us wrong, we're still really, really sad about it. The Jerry Sandusky debacle has reeked shame across the whole organisation and fans feel that there's a stain every time they put on their Penn State jumper or think back to where they were when Penn State beat Ohio State in 2005 in one of the games of Paterno's career.
Remember readers - we started rooting for Penn State because of Joe Paterno.
True, we'd been to other college football games involving Arizona State, but in 2003, weย saw an ESPN documentary about how much Joe Paterno loved young people, and we thought: "If there's any school we've going to support, it's going to be one coached by THAT man".
We made the trip to Beaver Stadium to see Penn State hammer Indiana (and Zach Mills have a great game in the process), and it's been like glue: sticky.
Since 2003, the journey has gone from bad to good to mediocre to good to medicore to good (although the school's 8-1 going into its three hardest games), but our passion has never left, even though our marbles have ever so often, particularly after crappy quarterback play, the failure to hit a field goal in the waning seconds, or a last-second shocker at Michigan that was only eviscerated after the Nittany Lions won a couple of games against Rich Rodriguez' side in the last second.
Look, we don't believe that Joe Paterno should have been fired over the Jerry Sandusky debacle. After all, he did what was legally right. He contacted his superior. Morally? It's another question altogether. There was a systematic failure to those kids who were abused, and that's terrible.
I'm beginning to believe writer Mike Silver, who we asked about this. He said: "Fry everybody", and I'm beginning to believe that if all of the administration resign/retire/get fired over this, then maybe we can all breath and move on.
On another note, we'reย still stunned the media aren't crowding around the houses of Tim Curley, Mike McQueary or one Graham Spanier - all of whom bear more than enough blame for this situation. And while we're blaming people, have people forgotten that it wasn't Joe Paterno messing with kids but it was ย Jerry Sandusky? Where's the vitriol for this man, who caused so much damage with his (alleged) abuse of young children?
Now, for Saturday. It's going to be an emotional one, as it's Joe Paterno's last game. We can expect tears on the sidelines and in the student section.
Let's get on with it, and beat Nebraska.
The media have got their man. Joe Paterno's going to retire from Penn State Football at season's end, sources have told ESPNย and prior to that, the Associated Press.
Frankly, he should have retired this year regardless -ย it was fairly obvious that his reign was coming to an end and Penn State needed a new coach.
But don't get us wrong, we're still really, really sad about it. The Jerry Sandusky debacle has reeked shame across the whole organisation and fans feel that there's a stain every time they put on their Penn State jumper or think back to where they were when Penn State beat Ohio State in 2005 in one of the games of Paterno's career.
Remember readers - we started rooting for Penn State because of Joe Paterno.
True, we'd been to other college football games involving Arizona State, but in 2003, weย saw an ESPN documentary about how much Joe Paterno loved young people, and we thought: "If there's any school we've going to support, it's going to be one coached by THAT man".
We made the trip to Beaver Stadium to see Penn State hammer Indiana (and Zach Mills have a great game in the process), and it's been like glue: sticky.
Since 2003, the journey has gone from bad to good to mediocre to good to medicore to good (although the school's 8-1 going into its three hardest games), but our passion has never left, even though our marbles have ever so often, particularly after crappy quarterback play, the failure to hit a field goal in the waning seconds, or a last-second shocker at Michigan that was only eviscerated after the Nittany Lions won a couple of games against Rich Rodriguez' side in the last second.
Look, we don't believe that Joe Paterno should have been fired over the Jerry Sandusky debacle. After all, he did what was legally right. He contacted his superior. Morally? It's another question altogether. There was a systematic failure to those kids who were abused, and that's terrible.
I'm beginning to believe writer Mike Silver, who we asked about this. He said: "Fry everybody", and I'm beginning to believe that if all of the administration resign/retire/get fired over this, then maybe we can all breath and move on.
On another note, we'reย still stunned the media aren't crowding around the houses of Tim Curley, Mike McQueary or one Graham Spanier - all of whom bear more than enough blame for this situation. And while we're blaming people, have people forgotten that it wasn't Joe Paterno messing with kids but it was ย Jerry Sandusky? Where's the vitriol for this man, who caused so much damage with his (alleged) abuse of young children?
Now, for Saturday. It's going to be an emotional one, as it's Joe Paterno's last game. We can expect tears on the sidelines and in the student section.
Let's get on with it, and beat Nebraska.
